Muko u ugukia
Ndunumie kamere.

Mere tiya kuria
Ni ya gutenderia ithiga

Munyanyaguo ari va?
Ari na varia nyunjuri.

Agika atia navo?
Agikanda ndaa

Iria twakanirue
Ni aka a aturi

Waminainia we
Ningukwinainia
Waninga-i we
Niringire nanie.

You woman grinding millet
Give me some dough for eating

The dough is not for eating
It is for smoothening the grinding stone

Where is your co-wife?
She is behind the house

What is she doing there?
She is crushing lice with her teeth

The lice we were forbidden to crush
By the blacksmith's wives

If you shake me
I'll also shake you
If you hit me
I'll also hit back.